LEBANON - Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Ryan Widmer's lawyer, Jay Clark, of violating a court order barring parties from commenting about the case in which Widmer is accused of drowning his newlywed wife in their bathtub in 2008.

Assistant Prosecutor John Arnold asked Warren County Common Pleas Judge Neal Bronson to order Clark "to appear before this court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt." Arnold also said the judge should consider Clark's recent out-of-court comments as an additional reason to move Widmer's trial outside Warren County when he stands trial on a murder charge for the third time following two mistrials.